---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000059255-24-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VHI"
cik: "0000059255"
company_name: "VALHI INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T02:03:33.933666+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Valhi reports Q4 net income $3.9M vs year-ago loss; full-year net loss $12.1M

## Summary
- Q4 2023 net income attributable to Valhi stockholders $3.9M ($0.14/diluted) vs net loss $9.4M ($0.33) in Q4 2022.
- Full-year 2023 net loss $12.1M ($0.42/diluted) vs net income $90.2M ($3.16) in 2022.
- Chemicals Segment Q4 sales $400.1M (+17% YoY), operating loss improved to $1.6M from $15.3M loss.
- Chemicals Segment full-year sales $1.7B (-14% YoY) with operating loss $41.1M vs income $174.6M.
- Chemicals Segment incurred $96M in unabsorbed fixed costs due to production curtailments at 72% capacity utilization.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000059255-24-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VHI
- cik: 0000059255
- company_name: VALHI INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59255/000005925524000012/0000059255-24-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59255/000005925524000012/vhl-20240307x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  VALHI INC /DE/ reported the fourth quarter of 2023 results: net income $3.9 million, EPS $.14 per share.
  - Period: the fourth quarter of 2023
  - Net income: $3.9 million
  - EPS: $.14 per share
  - Result: reported results
  source text: Valhi, Inc. (NYSE: VHI) reported net income attributable to Valhi stockholders of $3.9 million, or $.14 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59255/000005925524000012/0000059255-24-000012-index.htm

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